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Premise labels used: forbidden love, wartime separation, memory loss, hidden secret, survival quest, time travel, star-crossed lovers, music and love, escape from danger, family secret

Themes labels used: love and survival, music as solace, memory and identity, war trauma, Holocaust, anti-Semitism, forbidden love, hope and resilience, fate and destiny, sacrifice, loyalty, loss and grief, perseverance, guilt, human goodness, rebuilding life

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Beyond the Moon

Catherine Taylor · 2020

A grieving medical student and a wounded WWI soldier connect across a century through a hidden hospital wing.

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Premise labels: time slip · cross-time romance · war hospital · mental institution · forbidden love · lost family · dual hardship · identity crisis · survival · destined love

Themes labels: war · mental illness · grief · loss · identity · art · love · trauma · sanity · survival · fate · destiny · memory · healing · medical ethics · institutional neglect · humanity · classical courage · depression · psychological suffering

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Time After Time

Lisa Grunwald · 2019

A love story set in Grand Central Terminal where a young woman repeatedly appears across decades, bound to one place and one man.

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Premise labels: star-crossed lovers · impossible love · love across time · time slip · ghost romance · fated meeting · trapped lover · love against odds

Themes labels: love and sacrifice · time and mortality · freedom and confinement · identity · class difference · war and loss · family obligation · belonging · memory · fate · letting go · endurance · place as destiny

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The River of No Return

Bee Ridgway · 2014 · River of No Return

A Regency aristocrat and a 21st-century time traveler are pulled into a secret war over control of time.

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Premise labels: time travel · secret society · forbidden return · cross-time romance · timeline control · missing person in time · battle for time · family secrets · quest object · future at risk

Themes labels: time and memory · fate vs choice · secrets · truth and lies · control · free will · loss and longing · identity · duty · love across time · history and change · power and secrecy · trust · knowledge withholding · moral ambiguity · class

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Timekeeper

Alexandra Monir · 2013 · Timeless

A time-crossed teen must unravel family secrets and a memory loss mystery to save her love and herself.

Why this is here

Premise labels: time-crossed lovers · lost memory · secret society · family secrets · time travel mystery · identity quest · imminent threat · ancestral conflict · fated reunion · second chance romance

Themes labels: fate · destiny · love across time · memory · identity · family history · loss · grief · betrayal · jealousy · time travel ethics · free will · consequences · self-defense · transcendent love

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Prima

Sherry Thomas

In a sea-bound post-collapse world, two lovers separated by memory and time must navigate politics and longing.

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Premise labels: star-crossed lovers · second chance romance · amnesia · sea travel · post-collapse society · political intrigue · forbidden romance · healing powers

Themes labels: memory and identity · longing · love across time · patriarchy · misogyny · politics and power · survival · cultural difference · loss and recovery · fate

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Heart of Obsidian

Nalini Singh · 2013 · Psy-Changeling

A powerful, damaged Psy hunts for a lost woman whose return could transform his life and a world on the brink.

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Premise labels: forbidden love · second chance · rescued beloved · lost memory · search for missing person · psychic power · civil war · unstable world · powerful couple · dangerous attraction · redemption through love · psychic politics

Themes labels: love and loyalty · redemption · healing · trauma · identity · memory · freedom · subjugation · liberation · power and control · civil conflict · prejudice · solidarity · sanity and madness · hope · recovery · forgiveness · sacrifice

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Timeless

Alexandra Monir · 2011 · Timeless

A grieving teen discovers a time-traveling family secret in New York and falls for a boy from 1910.

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Premise labels: time travel romance · family secrets · star-crossed lovers · double life · quest

Themes labels: love across time · family history · identity · grief · sacrifice · fate · destiny · memory · coming of age · heritage · choice · loss · music and love · past shaping present

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Hold Back the Stars

Katie Khan · 2017

Stranded in space with 90 minutes of air left, two lovers relive a forbidden relationship in a tightly controlled future.

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Premise labels: forbidden love · stranded in space · race against time · survival story · love under restriction · first love · utopian society

Themes labels: love and sacrifice · individualism · personal freedom · social control · duty versus desire · fate and choice · life decisions · mortality · memory · loss · grief · survival · utopia versus dystopia · greater good · coming of age · first love · human connection · rules and rebellion · family duty

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Trillium

Jeff Lemire · 2014 · Trillium

A botanist from a doomed future and an explorer from 1921 become linked by a strange flower and a temple across time.

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Premise labels: star-crossed lovers · time-crossed romance · endangered humanity · sentient virus · quest for cure · mysterious temple · lost civilization · parallel lives · space-time connection · first contact

Themes labels: love · time · identity · connection · communication · humanity · survival · extinction · trauma · fate · destiny · parallelism · boundaries · deconstruction · medium specificity · ecology · first contact · mystery · sacrifice

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Alex

Lauren Oliver · 2014 · Delirium

A short, first-person companion novella follows Alex through imprisonment, escape, and the pull of love and hope.

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Premise labels: survival story · escape story · prison survival · captivity · torture aftermath · love-driven quest · lost love · first love · trauma recovery · backstory reveal

Themes labels: love and sacrifice · hope · memory · trauma · survival · freedom · identity · pain endurance · reunion · forgiveness · loss · fate

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The Little Book

Selden Edwards · 2008

A displaced 1980s man awakens in 1897 Vienna and must unravel family secrets, love, and destiny across time.

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Premise labels: time travel · family saga · generational secrets · historical encounter · identity crisis · love story · past displacement · fate

Themes labels: time and memory · fate vs free will · family legacy · historical causality · identity · love across time · destiny · anti-Semitism · modernism · psychology · psychoanalysis · war and politics · history's impact · connectedness · mortality · trauma

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Saga #1

Brian K. Vaughan · 2012 · Saga (Single Issues)

A fugitive couple from warring worlds tries to keep their newborn safe while a galactic war closes in.

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Premise labels: star-crossed lovers · forbidden love · fugitives · new parents · on the run · interstellar war · bounty hunt · family survival · child protection · galactic conflict

Themes labels: war and family · love across divides · parental sacrifice · survival · identity · choosing family · discrimination · fate and future · hope amid conflict · morality

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